Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God. In 1 Corinthians 1, the answer to those demanding a sign and those seeking wisdom is Christ crucified. At the cross, God's love and justice meet. His presence stays with you beyond a Sunday encounter. Ask God for wisdom when you need direction, and trust His power when you reach the end of your own strength. You carry Christ into your workplace, your family and the situations you face tomorrow.

Many do not manifest the invisible just because of a lack of knowledge, and the moment a truth is presented to you is the moment you can experience it. From 2 Corinthians 4:18 and Colossians 1:27, under the new covenant eternity now lives inside you: Christ in you, the hope of glory. A true encounter with God must produce revelation, revelation must produce transformation, and transformation must produce manifestation. 1 John 1 opens four dimensions of God to experience when a message is preached: what you hear, what you see, what you look upon and what your hands handle. Move from information to experience. Take the message, prepare it as if you had to preach it, then go and preach it at work, with demonstration and not words alone.

The Secret History Of The Mantle // Kingsmen Conference draws on rabbinical writings and tradition for a mantle handed down from Adam. Leon du Preez traces it from Jacob, Moses, Samuel, David and Elijah to John the Baptist and the seamless robe of Jesus. God looks after a lineage, so the church you are in, the voice you listen to and the hands laid on you all matter. But a vow made at a men's conference is still you and not God. The covenant that holds is the one God made with Himself, and it can never be broken. Everything Jesus carried was poured out in Acts 2, and it is on you the moment you are born again. Every sin is forgiven, past, present and future. Believe it, and receive that assurance today.

At Caesarea Philippi in Matthew 16, Peter says, "You are the Christ." Neville Goldman calls it a place of many gods, and he reads Peter's words as Messiah, the only One. You will not know who you are until you know who God is, and from that revelation he draws the rock, the church and the keys of the kingdom. A kingdom, he argues, is not a church: it takes in schools, roads, business and medical care. Then he goes to Apollos, who in his telling knew the Scriptures up till John, and to John 11, where he hears Jesus fighting for one thing. Jesus never aligns Himself with you. You have to align with Him. Is He just the Saviour to you, or the Messiah?

A burden from God is a weight in your spirit that moves you to act. In 1 John 1:1, the Word of life is heard, seen and handled. Because you are united with Christ, His leading can become familiar within you. Prayer makes you sensitive to that leading, and obedience to small promptings prepares you to recognise a greater assignment. A burden may move you to pray for someone, speak, give or change direction. Learn the difference between a burden and anxiety, and let prayer expose your own desires before you call them God's will.

Does grace give you a license to sin? Leon du Preez takes on the accusation that has followed the gospel of grace since Jesus was accused of eating with sinners and Paul was slandered for it in Romans 3:8. Grace is not a message but a person, Jesus Christ, and Titus 2 shows that the same grace that saves you also teaches you. You have died to sin. You cannot add works to grace and still call it grace, and the law strengthens sin. Jude, read in context, shows who really turned the grace of God into lewdness, and John shows why a believer who knows they are loved stays close to God. The first thing God called holy was the day He rested, in Genesis 2:3, so rest in total forgiveness and know you are accepted in the Beloved.

Through years of counselling men, Maartin Bezuidenhout has found three battles every man will face, and he takes you to 1 Samuel 17 to meet them: Eliab, the battle of offence and rejection; Saul, the battle of identity and inadequacy; Goliath, the battle of purpose and destiny. The first two he calls false battles, distractions from the assignment God has placed on your life. David turned from Eliab, took off Saul's armour and ran towards Goliath. So forgive and let go, and stop measuring yourself against another man. Prophetically, he sees David go down into that valley wearing the shepherd's mantle, the mantle of Christ the good shepherd, and the five smooth stones speak to him of grace. What mantle are you wearing? He answers from Galatians 3:27: you are clothed with Christ. Rise up, Kingsmen. It is time to rise and lead.

If you don't know your true identity, you will never know your true authority, and you will always be pushing to be accepted. Neville Goldman takes that into Matthew 16, where Peter says, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God," and the revelation comes from the Father, not from flesh and blood. From there he follows the sonships he finds in the passage: Son of Man, Son of God and, in the name Bar-Jonah, son of the Holy Ghost. Psalm 8:4 and Genesis 5:2 lead him to Adam, the one name God gave male and female, and he reads that name as aleph for God and dam for blood, the DNA of sonship. You were born blessed, he says. Stop carrying what Jesus has taken. Receive Him, not accept Him.